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I think we should improve our website by changing the default icon (the blue 
house with a "{P}" in it) to something a little sexier (or fitter, as it were.) 
 I haven't really thought about what it should be - so I am open to ideas.  I'm 
really just tired of seeing the little blue house.  One possibility that I 
thought of is to use a picture of exercise equipment (see attached.)  However, 
I am open to anything.  Any graphic artists among us?  (not me!)  

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pvogren@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2011 at 10:01

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I'm also not very skilled in that area. When choosing a new icon we need to 
observe that the image license does permit us to use it. I think there should 
be some quite large icon collections from Linux desktop projects like Gnome or 
KDE probably under GPL which we might be able to use. I think most photos don't 
work too well once scaled down to icon size.

Original comment by richard.eckart on 5 Jan 2011 at 8:19

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You might have some success tracing the outline of the treadmill and putting a 
happy stick figure on it. A line drawing would scale better than a photograph, 
and since you made it yourself, there's not copyright issues (don't trace too 
carefully).

Original comment by croeder6000 on 5 Jan 2011 at 5:56

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I have an idea that I like.  As it turns out, "uima" is the Finnish word for 
"swimming" and so something like the icon here:

http://www.clker.com/clipart-swimming1.html

would be nice.  I think I could create something similar to this if its terms 
of use aren't favorable.  

Original comment by pvogren@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2011 at 7:46

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The swimming icon is quite nice. I understand the terms of use (link above the 
icon) state that is should be in public domain and freely usable. Do you share 
that understanding?

Original comment by richard.eckart on 6 Jan 2011 at 7:52

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Not to be contrary, but the icon you suggest says "swimming" to me.
This one: http://www.clker.com/clipart-map-symbols-exercise-fitness-white.html
from the same collection, comes across to me more directly as "fitness".

...but it is fascinating that uima means swimming in Finnish.

Original comment by croeder6000 on 6 Jan 2011 at 8:24

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To me the swimming icon suggests sports which is close enough to fitness. So 
while Philip's suggestion for me carries both concepts (swimming/uima + 
spots/fitness) your suggestion only covers the latter.

Original comment by richard.eckart on 6 Jan 2011 at 8:28

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Are you a Finn or do you speak Finnish?

Original comment by croeder6000 on 6 Jan 2011 at 9:13

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Lol ;) No, not really. But I learned from Philip that "uima" means "swimming" 
(verified via google of course). 

Original comment by richard.eckart on 6 Jan 2011 at 9:43

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ah, that gives me some insight into how you think about this.
I prefer the fitness image because it is more directly related to UIMAfit by 
way of "fit". I see why you would prefer the swimming image because, with a bit 
of investigation, it relates to both UIMA and fit.

Original comment by croeder6000 on 6 Jan 2011 at 10:11

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Chris, I laughed out loud when I saw your icon suggestion.  It does indeed 
emphasize the FIT in uimaFIT - but overly so in my opinion.  I think it is a 
good suggestion  -but it's a bit too silly, I think.  

I agree with Richard that the swimming icon covers both "uima" and "FIT".  

Yeah - my understanding is that the image *should* be in the public domain 
because it is their policy to tell folks that upload pictures to the site that 
they must be.  But I can't tell that that means that they *are* in the public 
domain.  That's why I hedged earlier.  

Original comment by pvogren@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2011 at 10:18

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I don't see how to verify that a given image is in the public domain or not.  
However, I see very little risk in using the swimming icon.  I think we can, in 
good faith, say that we attempted to use a graphic in the public domain nor did 
we profit by our use of it.  If we were to ever get pushback from someone on 
our use of the graphic, then we could remove it.  

Original comment by pvogren@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2011 at 10:27

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The icon seems to be a redone version of one of the icons here: 

http://www.ferc.gov/industries/hydropower/safety/guidelines/signage/symbols/web/
symbols.htm

An adapted version is used by mass.gov:

http://www.mass.gov/dcr/universal_access/a-ski.htm

There are "no swimming" variants of the design as well:

http://www.traditioncreek.com/storefront/no-swimming-p-1507.html

However, other that the on clker I didn't so far manage to find a clipart 
collection which would state a different license on the image (~20 minutes 
research on google).

Original comment by richard.eckart on 6 Jan 2011 at 10:46

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This works for me.  Do you prefer the black-on-white?  or white-on-black?  The 
latter stands out a bit more - but maybe that's a bad thing...

Original comment by pvogren@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2011 at 11:12

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There's no accounting for taste, and we certainly wouldn't want to appear as 
silly.

Original comment by croeder6000 on 6 Jan 2011 at 11:18

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I prefer the black background one. 

Original comment by richard.eckart on 6 Jan 2011 at 11:22

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Ok - I have added the new icon.  Just to be thorough - the icons can be 
accessed from this page:

http://www.ferc.gov/industries/hydropower/safety/guidelines/signage/report/Safet
y_signage.htm

Here is the page of icons:
http://www.ferc.gov/industries/hydropower/safety/guidelines/signage/symbols/web/
symbols.htm

The image I used was cropped from the following:

http://www.ferc.gov/industries/hydropower/safety/guidelines/signage/symbols/web/
thumbnails/S-32.jpg

I will commit the image to subversion and close this if you guys like the new 
icon.  I think it looks pretty sharp - certainly better than the blue-p home.  

Original comment by pvogren@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2011 at 11:53

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nice. It looks much better than the default. The black is cool.
Is there a place to let folks in on the alternate meaning of uima?

Original comment by croeder6000 on 7 Jan 2011 at 12:11

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Yep. Nice. I uploaded it to ohloh as well. (https://www.ohloh.net/p/uimafit)

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Original comment by pvogren@gmail.com on 12 Jan 2011 at 7:26

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